Concepts and philosophers fall in and out of fashion. The pressure to be “current” is strong—critical theorists of all stripes live and write under the tyranny of the new. In this context (whether you are working through Fanon or Spivak, Leibniz or Peirce, Heidegger or Spinoza, Butler or Marx), temptations to engage a range of derivatives but “sign” a paper with the “source” are perhaps more pressing than ever.

In this paper, we draw on Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis as a lens with which to analyse the dynamics of and differences between pit trading and HFT.

By turning to the novels of The Border Trilogy, my aim here is to outline an approach to the frontiers of both space and history—to advance what can be called spatial history—in order to think through the politics of space, the reorganisation of space and the production of space.

Our manuscript explores the human-donkey relationship in Botswana where smallholder farmers own donkeys as a means of subsistence and income generation. To examine this relationship we apply a feminist posthumanist iteration of performativity to capture who the donkey is, what they experience and how these performances are shaped within the context of Botswana.

The December issue of Environment and Planning D: Society and Space is already up online.

Our intervention engages with Queer People of Color (QpoC) positionalities as a valuable lens through which to rethink the racial and colonial imaginaries of subjects and space in Europe. We bring together race, gender, class, colonialism and sexuality, inseparably, in a shared analytic.

The images of the body of Aylan Kurdi, who drowned off the coast of Turkey, have shaped global perceptions of refugees and refugee policy in Europe. This is a recording of a symposium which sought to encourage more sustained reflection on the nature and meaning of these images and the ethics and the politics of their use.

By couching human shielding, IHL effectively does two things: on the one hand, it prohibits the transformation of civilians into human shields, while, on the other, it allows military forces to attack targets that are protected by human shields (provided they abide by the principle of proportionality), thus combining the prohibition of using human shields with the legality of killing them.

I draw on the idea of infrastructuring to approach ethnographically the human and material components of infrastructure "in the making." While much of the literature on humanitarianism, human rights, and development has attended to politics, law, and ethics, an attention to infrastructuring moves past idealist concerns to the technicalities through which ideals become enacted on the ground.

This constitutes Brenner’s “inside out” approach, which, in part, is his attempt to invalidate the notion of “urban age” and claims like “50 per cent threshold of world population now living in cities” as a starting point for urban study. The investigation of what stands outside cities and of their processes, he thinks, proves to be far more relevant to comprehending the global urban than a demographic threshold that threatens to hide radically different local situations.